@inproceedings{629031add076471d8da37d7f99f86d7a,
title = "Factors affecting talker adaptation in a second language",
abstract = "Listeners adapt rapidly to previously unheard talkers by adjusting phoneme categories using lexical knowledge, in a process termed lexically-guided perceptual learning. Although this is firmly established for listening in the native language (L1), perceptual flexibility in second languages (L2) is as yet less well understood. We report two experiments examining L1 and L2 perceptual learning, the first in Mandarin-English late bilinguals, the second in Australian learners of Mandarin. Both studies showed stronger learning in L1; in L2, however, learning appeared for the English-L1 group but not for the Mandarin-L1 group. Phonological mapping differences from the L1 to the L2 are suggested as the reason for this result.",
keywords = "second language acquisition, speech perception, English language, Mandarin dialects, perceptual learning",
author = "Anne Cutler and Burchfield, {L. Ann} and Mark Antoniou",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
publisher = "The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association",
pages = "33--36",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 4-7 December 2018, Sydney, Australia",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology ; Conference date: 04-12-2018",
}